gnostic

She is called Lalla 'Arifa ('Lalla, the Gnostic'), Lalla Madjzuba ('Lalla, the Ecstatic') and Rabi'a-e-Sani.

He cannot be called a Gnostic in the proper sense of the word.

But at its best the book works as gnostic commentary on the action.

It seems to have excluded gnostic tendencies right from the start.

In the first place, several gnostic groups describe the divine Mother as part of an original couple.

I don't know whether this is a gnostic idea precisely.

The secret teaching in Gnostic literature refers to several things.

Arguing for a gnostic influence has to be seen as part of this strategy.

His school is a combination of philosophical and Gnostic thoughts.

Outsiders could only know these secrets by joining a gnostic group.

But here, too, the gnostic model stands close to the psychotherapeutic one.

They themselves, as gnostic Christians, belonged to the few who were chosen.

This Gnostic heresy became prevalent again in the second century.

The term is thus a central element of Gnostic cosmology.

Like most Gnostic writing, the text is extremely mystical, more so for being in the first person.

Certainly, he was more Gnostic than fundamentalist in the drift of his beliefs.

We know that gnostic teachers challenged the orthodox in precisely this way.

From the bishop's viewpoint, of course, the gnostic position was outrageous.

A probable reason for his rejecting them is their strong teaching against Gnostic beliefs.

Some began to use ideas of a generally Gnostic nature which were current in Iraq during the 8th century.

Can we find any actual, historical reasons why these gnostic writings were suppressed?

School courses in Gnostic philosophy and history have to be decided on by elect authorities.

During the second century this gnostic device was adopted by orthodox Christianity.

At the very least, a genius of gnostic hints.

Sexuality is the source of pervasive suffering in this gnostic universe.

Its beliefs were based on local Mesopotamian gnostic and religious movements.